AMD FX 4300 easily Overheating

Henrique de Lima

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Nov 11, 2014
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I bought this PC roughly a month ago, and after playing some games on it i noticed that the CPU cooler starts spinning really fast on any game, it doesnt matter if its a really heavy 3D Game, or a light 2D one, it gets on 6000 rpm easily on both.
Then i noticed that that meant that the processor was overheating, and it really was! It gets on 52 grades celsius really easily.
What do i need to do make the processor cool down? The noise that my cooler do when it is really fast is giving me some headaches.

Here is some specs, if needed:
Processor: AMD FX-4300 X4 AM3+ 3.8GHz
Motherboard: ASUS 980DE3/U3S3 AMD760G
Graphics Card: XFX One 2GB DDR3 HDMI DVI PCI-E2
RAM: 4GB
HD: Toshiba 500GB

Thanks in advance!
 

garrick

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52 degrees is pretty cool and you should be okay with even higher temps up until 70-80 degrees. I'm not sure what the exact problem you're facing but if you don't like the loud CPU fan noise try upgrading to a better CPU cooler since the stock cooler is not all that great.